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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-hypervigilance-is-now-an-omnipresent-cognitive-load-for-your-users

> AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.

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vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

I remember, years ago, watching Apple keynotes and, corpo-fap aside, often being excited for some new device or other. Have felt the complete opposite for basically a decade at this point.

Yesterday I got my XTEiNK 4 Pro. A simple enough ePaper device. Had a play with it, nuked the OS and seamlessly installed CrossInk instead, turning it into a MUCH better device.

That? That's the good feeling. The only good feeling a device can give me these days. When it lets me do what I want with it.

It's not -gadgets- that I've lost excitement for, it's hating that what I"m usually being sold is just another hook, going into my skin, keeping me tethered to some corporate service or other.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also, it bears mentioning that the complex multifaceted nature of programming skill means that the thing you need to optimize is always the distribution of skills *among a team*, not just maxing out your stats on your one 10x asshole. Well-functioning teams with a lot of context and psychological safety will absolutely annihilate ninja rockstar cowboys every single time.

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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/117265021618952038

“Listen, I’m not gonna let a little neo-naziism get between me and a bandwagon.”

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zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Arseny Kapoulkine") wrote:

sloppery slope

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low
(SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe
— neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn,
when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago.

What they’re picking up instead is electronic leakage from SpaceX satellites.

-- Not the broadband beams Starlink intentionally transmits.

-- The accidental static bleeding from onboard hardware, coupling through satellite structures and radiating across frequencies nobody authorized.

A Curtin University team using the Engineering Development Array 2
— a prototype SKA-Low station in Australia
— analyzed approximately 76 million radio images over 29 days.

The results, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, are uncomfortable reading.

Researchers catalogued 112,534 individual radio emissions from 1,806 unique Starlink satellites across 73–235 MHz,
the exact frequency range SKA-Low needs.

Some satellites emit periodic 13-kHz tones at roughly 137 MHz every 100 seconds.

These aren’t scheduled downlinks that operators can plan around. They’re unpredictable hardware leakage
— and researchers cannot subtract a signal they cannot model.

Current ITU regulations ignore unintended satellite hardware leakage, leaving astronomers without legal protection.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/starlinks-signal-leakage-is-threatening-radio-astronomys-most-critical-frequencies

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dotstdy ("Josh Simmons") wrote:

@glyph Don't trust the guy telling you he has one weird subscription based trick that lets you be as good as your heros without any of the work or time investment. Instead embrace your skill issue and learn to drill through the heavens.

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catnapgames@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tomas Andrle") wrote:

I don't have FOMO when it comes to AI. I have JOMO: joy of missing out.

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ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Omar") wrote:

AI assisted PR/issues appears to be quickly damaging what’s remaining of good energy and interactions in open source software maintenance. An extra year of this trajectory toward laziness in interactions and I can picture communities switching to invite-only or paying-only.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

@treyhunner Fact: every org grows at some point a bespoke subprocess.run wrapper

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neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social ("Dan Goodman") wrote:

If you really think that AI running out of control is a dangerous possibility, then make tech company CEOs legally liable for illegal actions taken by their company's agents.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

I'm a very infrequent Linux user, but I can't help feeling sorry for the community that has developed Arch Linux when they see millions of dollars of funding being hurled at Omarchy (much from fash-adjacent individuals).

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

These cards have an amazing holo layer which isn't shown on the English card pics, but the Japanese previews include it. Super excited for these!

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

LIVE LAUGH LAGGUARDDIA

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Bombardier CRJ900
A: #a49cd468475
F: #f89e6dd25ed

#acars #vdlm2

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

The Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration set releases on Wednesday! It's the first global simultaneous release in Pokémon's 30 year history, which is pretty cool. There are 30 new Pikachu cards in the set; here are my favorites. :pokeball:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i'm glad to be less internet famous these days

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

How can a guy such as this go on being a guy such as this for 20 years and nobody has come along and asked what the fuck

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The contagion of fear
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117262759691948368

I seriously need to know if this is a well known meme guy already or if I need to investigate whatever the fuck is going on

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
douwe@waag.social ("Douwe") wrote:

What's an influencer?

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chetwisniewski@securitycafe.ca ("Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦") wrote:

I had a few weekend thoughts on generative AI, LLMs, and how they are destroying our Creative Commons. Would love to hear your thoughts, here are mine:

https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/

#NoAI #GenAI #openness

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

for example, suspend hasn't worked reliably for so long that i now never even try anymore. that's because the radeon driver has absolutely no concept of lifecycle and they pile hacks on top of hacks. and that's just one of the more obvious things.

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carstenfranke ("Carsten Franke") wrote:

I have a business idea.

These Waymo and robo taxis are terribly expensive. The vehicle is $100,000+, you need a big lot for charging and cleaning, all these programmers for the software and billion dollar data centers.

Why don't we give a person a $20,000 used car and a radio, have a person with a phone in your city. You call the phone person, request a ride, they radio the driver to pick you up and give you a ride to your destination.
Much cheaper and lots of local jobs.
#robotaxi #waymo

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the only thing that i don't get from this whole linux slopping it up thing is that some people seem to think that the linux kernel isn't already a steaming turd?

clearly they've never had to use an AMD graphics card.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

an adult and two,children are dead

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/13/pennsylvania-third-measles-death-outbreak?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well now, this puts an interesting light on that particular missile strike:

possible targets: Boris Johnson and David Petraeus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/13/russian-drone-hits-kyiv-warsaw-passenger-train-polish-border?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA

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CliftonR@wandering.shop ("Clifton Royston") wrote:

@eniko

On interview questions:

A guy goes in for a job interview. His resume looks good, and it's going well, so the interviewer starts giving him some of the standard questions and gets to "What would you say your greatest weakness is?"

"Oh, that's easy - I'm too honest with people."

"I don't think that sounds like much of a weakness."

"I don't give a fuck what you think."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

There is nothing “conservative” about either MAGA or the AfD, certainly not in the colloquial understanding of the term. They are at war with the very idea of a democratic society of equals, devoted to a project that is best described as a kind of aggrieved revanchism.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grinnpidgeon@techhub.social ("BarbaraPittman ☕️💬") wrote:

Small craft advisory! Fine for medium dogs, though. 😏 #DogsOfMastodon #EnglishSpringerSpaniel #LakeErie

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